Chapter 206 Missing Person Notice (XV)
Still a few chat screenshots.
The private detective learned his lesson this time and investigated Xu Lin's parents first. Although he had briefly investigated Xu Lin's parents' background before, the focus was on their interpersonal relationships. This time he started with their work relationships, especially investigating Xu Lin's parents' work in this city, and found a clue -
Xu Lin's parents had opened a restaurant in this city before. Although it is unknown how they should have made a lot of money or had a stable customer base, judging from the fact that they had opened the restaurant before Xu Lin was born and the other party had moved out of the city six years ago. However, the other party hurriedly closed the restaurant when Xu Lin was four years old, abandoned the customer base that had already formed a certain scale, moved to another city with her, and started a store from scratch. It was only in recent years that they finally got lucky and made it big. This is obviously unreasonable.
When the private detective found Xu Lin's parents with this information, they could not find an excuse to deny it and finally told them the real reason for moving out.
Although the restaurant was doing well at that time, in order to save costs, Xu's parents did not hire help, so there were only two of them running around in the restaurant. And Xu's parents did not have any elderly people to help take care of Xu Lin, so they could only take him with them.
There are also many loyal diners in the restaurant, some of whom bring their children. In addition, there are also children from nearby shops, and these people often get together to play.
The parents of both sides were familiar with each other, so they were relieved and happy that their children had playmates. Because the two children usually did not walk far, the adults did not follow them, but only reminded them to come back before dark.
A new guest came that day to entertain his friends, and this guest also brought a daughter named Shi Zimiao.
Children get full quickly and can't sit still. After a while, Shi Zimiao couldn't sit still anymore and soon started playing with Xu Lin, who was also in the store and had a similar personality. Xu Lin had made an appointment to go out and play with other children, and couldn't wait to leave when the time came, but Shi Zimiao was reluctant to leave and wanted to go with him.
Mr. and Mrs. Shi were afraid that their child would be bored, and they didn't want her to be tied to their side all the time, so they quickly agreed, but they did not forget to remind her to be careful.
The two girls were very obedient and promised to return to Xu's Restaurant before dark, just as Mr. and Mrs. Shi had almost finished their dinner.
But the accident still happened.
It gets dark early in winter, but it was almost six o'clock and the sky was already shrouded in darkness. Because of the cold wave today, not many people came to eat.
Xu's parents estimated that Xu Lin should be back at this time, so they started cooking early. But this time, they waited and waited until Shi's parents sent the guests away, but still did not see the two children.
The adults of both families realized something was wrong and went to the place where the two often played, but they did not find Xu Lin and Shi Zimiao. However, they learned from a child who was still playing in the park and knew Xu Lin and Shi Zimiao that the two did play in the park for a while, but not long after, they went to the back hills with other people to play hide-and-seek.
However, all the other children who played hide-and-seek came back one after another, except Xu Lin and Shi Zimiao.
There is indeed a hill behind the park that Xu Lin often goes to. Although they know there are no wild animals, their parents are worried, so both families forbid the two children to go there to play. The two children have always agreed, and they have always been well-behaved, so both parents never thought that the two children would go against their will and go to the hill today.
The parents of both sides immediately started looking for the child in the back mountain.
Xu Lin's parents were even luckier, as they found their unconscious daughter on the back hill soon after. But Shi's father and mother were not so lucky, as they searched for a long time that day, but they still couldn't find Shi Zimiao until they fainted in the early morning of the next day.
After Xu Lin woke up, Xu's parents also learned from her what happened. They knew that at that time, the two of them were playing hide-and-seek with others, and Xu Lin and Shi Zimiao were both hiding in different places. In order to win, she kept silent, and because she was tired and sleepy, she didn't know when she fainted. She didn't wake up until her parents found her.
As for where Shi Zimiao was hiding, Xu Lin didn't know either.
Shi's parents later called the police.
But there was no surveillance in those days, let alone in the back mountain, so Shi Zimiao was ultimately never found.
Naturally, Shi's father and mother could not accept this, not to mention that Shi Zimiao was their only child, so they went to Xu's house several times to discuss the details with Xu Lin. Although Xu Lin's parents could understand each other's feelings, the behavior of Shi's parents was too disturbing to them. In addition, they were also worried that Shi Zimiao's parents would be too sad about losing their child, which would lead to Xu Lin's anger and do something extreme. Therefore, after some thought, Xu Lin's parents finally decided to move to another city with their child.
Xu Lin was still too young at the time and had no impression of the city at all, and Xu's parents did not want to mention this matter in front of their child. Over time, even they themselves seemed to have forgotten all about it, and when they heard that Xu Lin was going to travel to this city, they had no intention of stopping him.
Fei also walked forward and saw the content sent by the private detective on the screen: "So Shi Zifei is the ghost who followed Xu Lin before?"
Qiao Yuan looked at some of the information that the private detective had sent him later about Shi Zimiao, which included photos of him when he was alive. Although it was a little blurry due to the age, it was vaguely similar to what the black skirt painting spirit had described.
The person who followed Xu Lin before was Shi Zimiao.
On the other end of WeChat, the private detective didn't know about the existence of ghosts, so he naturally suspected that Shi Zimiao's parents, who couldn't get over the pain of their daughter's disappearance, took their anger out on Xu Lin and tried to kidnap her. However, after investigation, the private detective found that Shi Zimiao's parents had divorced because of this incident and had their own new families in the past few years, moving out of the city, and it seemed that they had moved on, so Qiao Yuan didn't have to waste time investigating Shi Zimiao.
Qiao Yuan knew that the private detective would not believe in the existence of ghosts, so he just responded and saved all the clues provided by the private detective.
"The next thing we need to do is find Shi Zimiao and get information from him, right?" Because he had faced Qiao Yuan's interrogation of the black-skirted painted spirit, Fei naturally thought, "I just didn't expect that the ghost was actually a child."
This time, Qiao Yuan didn't say anything, but just frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.
During the short break, Qiao Yuan and Fei tentatively walked towards the gathering place and found that there were already two more people there -
Brother Lou and Chen Siyu.
Brother Lou was looking around nervously. After seeing Qiao Yuan and Fei, he did not relax. Instead, he looked at them carefully from head to toe, and then asked many questions. Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, it seems that they are indeed people."
Fei realized something: "You also encountered a ghost?"
Brother Lou opened his mouth and was about to speak, but Chen Siyu had already dubbed for him: "He said his lighter was stolen by a ghost."
Chen Siyu's obviously sarcastic tone made Brother Lou very dissatisfied. He first nervously searched around him, as if he was afraid that a ghost would hear what Chen Siyu said, and corrected her: "Yes, take it."
"I had hidden a lighter in my coat pocket and inside my shirt, but the one in my coat pocket was gone."
At that time, Brother Lou was craving for cigarettes and couldn't bear it any more, so he thought of secretly smoking a cigarette. He had found two lighters before and subconsciously put them in his pockets for convenience, but he didn't expect that when he touched the pocket, he found that the lighters were gone.
Brother Lou first ruled out the possibility of it falling. After all, it was in the mezzanine, and the only people he came into contact with were players and guests, and no one among these people had any reason to take action.
There was only one possibility left in Brother Lou's mind -
Taken by a ghost.
After all, this is the only way to solve the mysterious disappearance of the lighter.
He was being stared at by a ghost.
This thought made Brother Lou uneasy. He kept looking around vigilantly and did not show any sign of relief until he gathered with the players.
However, Chen Siyu felt that Brother Lou was overthinking it. After all, she didn't think there was any use for a ghost to have a lighter, not to mention that the other party might be a child ghost. Did he want to smoke?
Qiao Yuan, the only one who knew the truth, changed the subject and said that he had made a new discovery and was ready to wait for other players to come over and tell them together.
Although Brother Lou and Chen Siyu were anxious, they could only wait.
Fortunately, other players arrived one after another after a while.
Andrei and Aning arrived shortly afterwards. Although there was still a circle of bruises on Aning's neck, he seemed to have woken up.
Brother Lou and Chen Siyu didn't know what had happened before, so they focused on Aning's neck and asked her in confusion how she was injured.
Qiao Yuan was moved that after what happened before, Aning was still with Andre. Although they were not as affectionate as before, it seemed that their feelings were still there, and it seemed that Andre had coaxed them into being together.
This was indeed the case. After waking up, Aning still remembered that Andre had watched her almost being strangled to death, so she did not have a good look on her face when she saw Andre after waking up.
Andre also noticed this and explained why he didn't do that at the time: "I can't be sure whether what the painting spirit said is true. If she saw me thinking, maybe she could delay time..."
"It's just that I didn't expect her to take action in advance..."
Aning looked at Andre and finally believed what he said. After all, she always remembered that he broke off the engagement with the princess for her.
Andre briefly described how Hua Ling captured Aning and threatened them, but was then dealt with. Only then did Brother Lou and Chen Siyu put away their curiosity.
Sheng Guiye and Yan Shen arrived after a while, and the other players noticed the strange atmosphere between the two.
Andre was the first person to notice it. After all, at that time he took Aning to find Yan Shen and exchange the information he had heard from Hua Ling for shelter. However, as soon as he arrived at the front desk, he noticed the atmosphere of confrontation between Sheng Guiye and Yan Shen.
They both noticed his approach, but only glanced at him out of the corner of their eyes.
Andre also realized that these two people had no time to take care of him now, so he had to leave first and find another place to wait for Aning to wake up.
Although they were curious about what happened between Sheng Guiye and Yan Shen, Chen Siyu and the others looked at each other, but no one dared to be the first to speak out and ask questions directly.
Qiao Yuan also noticed the strange atmosphere between the two, but he still focused on the copy first.
After hearing Qiao Yuan's story about Shi Zimiao, Chen Siyu was the first to speak up: "The person who took Xu Lin away must be Shi Zimiao!"
"But why does she want to pester Xu Lin?" Fei asked.
"Maybe it's jealousy. After all, she's dead and Xu Lin is still alive." Brother Lou thought of the loss of his lighter and quickly added: "Ghosts' logic can't be thought of according to common sense."
Sheng Guiye: "It is also possible that Shi Zimiao's death was related to Xu Lin and was for revenge."
"That's right." Qiao Yuan glanced at Sheng Guiye. It was obvious that the other party also noticed something was wrong, so they both thought the same thing: "Xu Lin is likely to have directly or indirectly caused Shi Zimiao's death. There was a lot of deliberateness in it, so Shi Zimiao did this."
As soon as she said this, Chen Siyu and the others showed expressions . After all, Qiao Yuan's guess was equivalent to subverting their
Because of her injury, Aning spoke softly, but she still said, "How is that possible?"
"Xu Lin was only four years old at that time..."
Qiao Yuan: "Shi Zimiao is about the same age."
"There are many loopholes in Xu Lin's parents' story. Moreover, they never let Xu Lin have any contact with Shi Zimiao's parents. They used the excuse that Xu Lin was not feeling well and asked them to pass on the message to Shi Zimiao's parents and the police."
The other players were speechless for a moment.
"But the truth is not important. Our mission is to find Xu Lin." Brother Lou came back to his senses, and then seemed to have thought of something, and said hesitantly: "Although we know that it was Shi Zimiao who took her away, how do we know where her body is?"
"Call the spirits." A cold voice sounded, causing everyone to fall silent for a moment.
And the one who spoke was Yan Shen.
Chen Siyu: "Bring the ghost here directly?"
What Yan Shen said is not difficult to understand, but that doesn’t mean it is simple.
After all, players have always been avoiding ghosts. It can be seen from Brother Lou's performance that he wants to be as far away from ghosts as possible, but now Yan Shen's intention is to let them take the initiative to find ghosts.
"Is there any other way?" Aning spoke haltingly, expressing the thoughts of many players.
Qiao Yuan was very interested. Although she didn't know whether the other party was self-taught or had received professional training, she knew that if he could learn it, it would be much more convenient in the future.
Compared to Qiao Yuan's impatience, the other players all looked gloomy. However, Yan Shen's words were not a question, but an affirmative sentence, indicating that they would gather in an empty dormitory at 12 o'clock tonight.
Although Brother Lou and the others were afraid, they also knew that if they didn't go, the outcome that awaited them would most likely be more painful than being killed by ghosts, so they could only nod their heads reluctantly.
It is now 11 o'clock in the evening, and there is still an hour until twelve o'clock, so most players choose to go back to the dormitory to rest first.
Yan Shen also left quickly.
After most people left, Qiao Yuan looked at Sheng Guiye.
Sheng Guiye also understood what Qiao Yuan meant, and told him everything without waiting for the other party to ask.
Qiao Yuan hadn't expected Yan Shen to pay attention to this question: "Did he answer it later?"
Sheng Guiye: "No, we were suddenly attacked by ghosts."
At that time, he and Yan Shen were confronting each other, but he didn't expect to encounter a ghost right after that, interrupting their conversation.
That ghost was as difficult to deal with as the painting spirit that Qiao Yuan encountered. In addition, Sheng Guiye and Yan Shen both wanted the other to die at the hands of the ghost, so they spent a lot of time making the ghost fall silent and finally disappear unwillingly.
Sheng Guiye: "But I think he knew you before, and it is very likely that he has paid attention to your news."
"After I leave the dungeon, I'll try other means to find out his information."
Qiao Yuan nodded, but he didn't have much hope. After all, countless people had tried to look up the other party's information before, but they never found it, not to mention that the other party's face was fake.
Concerned about her emotional state...
Wait, why does this love-hate feeling seem so familiar?
You have to know that there are not many people who give her this feeling. After all, people generally have a clear distinction between love and hate.
She decided to think along this line.
Qiao Yuan thought about it in his mind and quickly locked on a target.
Qiao Yuan: “…L?”
Because I spoke in my mind, the system responded first: [Who is L? ]
Qiao Yuan: "Black Rose."
The system finally came to its senses: [I remember now, you should just say the flower name.]
【But why did you bring this up all of a sudden? 】
Qiao Yuan: "I suspect L is this Yan Shen."
The system had always been concerned about the identity of Black Rose, and thought that the answer would remain a mystery forever, but it did not expect the answer to come so unexpectedly.
But the unknown fascinated it, and the known made it feel completely shocked.
The system humanely raised a hundred question marks, and the degree of shock it had here was equivalent to discovering that L's true identity might be Song Yanchi. So much so that after hearing Qiao Yuan's words, as a program, it couldn't help but wonder if it had heard it wrongly.
Could it be that because I heard Qiao Yuan mention Yan Shen several times in the dungeon in the past few days, I grafted him to Black Rose?
Qiao Yuan: "But it's just a guess."
After all, she has no evidence now and can only rely on intuition.
Qiao Yuan opened up the system's mind: "In this case, it is easy to understand why Black... Yan Shen has been trying to kill you in this copy ."
After all, it had thought about how Black Rose felt when she saw Qiao Yuan's Weibo posts, and suggested that Qiao Yuan go to the hospital to look for her, hoping that he could find Rose who was receiving oxygen, but Qiao Yuan refused.
Qiao Yuan was dissatisfied and corrected what the system said: "He obviously wanted to kill me before."
The things Black Rose sent at that time were not friendly, and her behavior could only be considered as adding fuel to the fire.
